Erhan Hamzaoglu

Erhan Hamzaoglu (15 October 1982-29 July 2015) was a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and a former soldier in the Turkish Army.

Biography
Erhan Hamzaoglu was born on 15 October 1982 in Ankara, Turkey to a family of Sunni Muslim Turks. Hamzaoglu served in the Turkish Army from 2000 to 2006, and he was deployed against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) during the PKK insurgency. Hamzaoglu later became a follower of Salafism, abandoning the secular principles that the country of Turkey stood for. Hamzaoglu joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2013, and he fought in the Syrian Civil War. In July 2015 Hamzaoglu was recruited as a suicide bomber to attack al-Nusra Front positions, and he blew himself up in Harem, killing three al-Qaeda fighters.